Following a successful side event organised by France on 14th October 2024, held alongside the First Committee of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the responses to the threats posed by Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), Sebastian Kasack, MAG’s Head of Programmes Performance and Learning, and Riccardo Labianco, International Policy Manager, reflect on the role of humanitarian mine action in addressing explosive devices with indiscriminate effects, particularly landmines of an improvised nature.
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